Lewis, Kansas.
Typical home $99,459 (-2.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$255 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,162 -2%
- $101,621$99,459 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,798 +9%
- $91,661$99,459 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Lewis$522
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 42 years.
Typical home values in Lewis, KS fell 2.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lewis, Edwards County, Kansas
Lewis is a city of 400 people in Edwards County. Half its households earn more than $37,833 a year and half less, against $52,692 across Edwards County. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Edwards County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 16.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Edwards County work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Lewis is a small Kansas city in Edwards County, home to a very small community. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and typical home values are modest. Household incomes run below the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels. Almost no one works from home. Across Edwards County, the larger workplaces include Edwards County Hospital, Kinsley-Offerle Schools and Cross Manufacturing Inc. - Lewis, a maker of hydraulic cylinders. The county has more jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment there is a little higher than it was a year ago.
Things to do. A longer drive brings you to Fort Larned National Historic Site, a protected area preserving a frontier-era fort, and to Camp on Pawnee Fork, another fort site. The Pawnee River, also a longer drive away, suits a quiet day outdoors. Winters here are cold with some snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain.
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- 176households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 1%work from home
What people in Edwards County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Edwards County had 1,079 jobs in 2025, 16.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 66°. About 15 inches of snow and 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kinsley 2E weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Edwards County
- Edwards County HospitalCritical access hospital79FTE
- Kinsley-Offerle SchoolsSchool district55FTE
- Medicalodges KinsleySkilled nursing facilities45
- Cross Manufacturing Inc. - LewisHydraulic cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing39
- Kinsley FeedersFeedlots, cattle32
- Lewis SchoolsSchool district27FTE
- Tyree Ag LLC, KinsleyPesticides, agricultural, merchant wholesalers21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 137 people in all across the county; Lewis has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- HailVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lewis’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Edwards County.
Lewis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lewis$99,459
- Kansas$246,055
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Lewis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lewis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.